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  • A Vacaville High School English and drama teacher was arrested on suspicion of committing lewd and lascivious acts on a student.
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  • Solano County gun buyback
  • Solano County's gun buyback program collected hundreds of weapons including a military rocket launcher and assault rifles.
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  • Solano County gun buyback event sign
  • With nearly 344 weapons turned in, Solano County officials say their first ever gun buyback event was a success.
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  • Solano County gun buyback event sign
  • With nearly 250 weapons turned in, Solano County officials say their first ever gun buyback event was a success.
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  • High School students help feed cancer patients
  • With 3,000 new cancer diagnoses every year in Sonoma County alone, high school students are becoming a huge help in the healing process.
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  • A 24-hour Christmas Eve strike by union nurses at eight Bay Area hospitals ended this morning at 7 a.m. with no reported incidents, according to a spokeswoman for one of the hospitals.
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  • Nurses represented by the California Nurses Association today started a Christmas Eve strike at nine Bay Area hospitals over contract disputes.
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  • CHP Officer John Fanene
  • Authorities have released the name of a California Highway Patrol officer who was killed in an off-duty motorcycle crash.
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  • An off-duty California Highway Patrol officer riding a personal motorcycle was killed in a traffic collision outside of Fairfield Friday night.
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  • A Fairfield man arrested for the hit-and-run death of a pedestrian in Solano County on Wednesday posted bail.
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  • Mosquito larvae
  • On Monday, Contra Costa County officials will be spraying insecticide to kill mosquitoes at the former Concord Naval Weapons Station.
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  • Alameda County food bank
  • A lack of shipments from the federal government is leaving some Bay Area food banks with empty shelves.
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  • Alameda County food bank
  • A lack of shipments from the federal government is leaving some Bay Area food banks with empty shelves.
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  • Sonoma Developmental Center
  • ABC7 News and California Watch have uncovered a series of Taser assaults on disabled patients at the Sonoma Developmental Center.
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  • The people gathered Tuesday afternoon in a room at the Contra Costa and Solano Food Bank were the whos who of Contra Costa County social services and beyond.
  • The very non-profits that help people in need are finding themselves in need as they struggle in these tough financial times.
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  • Mosquitoes
  • State agencies say they've identified eight times as many cases of West Nile virus in mosquitoes this year compared to last.
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  • A tiny dot of the planet Venus is seen on the northwest side of the Suns disc
  • Those looking to catch a glimpse of the transit of Venus will have at least one viewing option in Solano County -- Mare Island.
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  • Dr. Thomas Gill's forensic pathology career already was scarred by numerous autopsy mistakes before he started ruling on causes of death for the Solano County sheriff-coroner in 2007.
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  • Petraeus, Harris address woes of military homeowners
  • CA's attorney general and the wife of a famous general met with service members ro talk about the financial difficulties they face.
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  • Petraeus, Harris address woes of military homeowners
  • CA's attorney general and the wife of a famous general met with service members ro talk about the financial difficulties they face.
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  • The Potrero Hills Landfill will take in 600-700 tons of garbage this year from all over Northern California.
  • One of the biggest dumps in the Northern California is fighting to get a lot bigger.
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  • A state Highway 12 widening project at the Solano-Napa county border that has been in the making for years is breaking ground.
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  • Golden Gate Bridge
  • A new study ranks the healthiest places to live in California.
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  • Thirty-one cars were involved in 11 separate crashes in heavy fog along a one-mile stretch of eastbound Highway 37.
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  • A hiker was rescued after he became stranded in a remote area of Solano County near Lake Berryessa on Monday night.
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  • A teen who was believed to have been abducted from her home last week admitted to fabricating the kidnapping.
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  • A teen girl at the center of a statewide AMBER Alert has been found alive in Vallejo.
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  • School bus accident
  • Five students were taken to hospitals with minor injuries after their Dixon Unified School District bus overturned.
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  • John Edward Gamboa, 38, of American Canyon, was booked into Solano 
County Jail Tuesday for committing lewd acts with a child under age 14, 
contacting a minor to engage in lewd behavior, and burglary.
  • A youth pastor has been arrested on suspicion of committing lewd acts with one of his underage female Bible study students.
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  • A large grass fire burning near Fairfield reached eight alarms Saturday evening.
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  • PG&E is conducting aerial gas leak detection tests in Yolo and Solano County today.
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  • A watchdog group in Solano County is worried a pipeline explosion could happen there.
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  • Vallejo police have identified 22-year-old Michael Ross as the Vallejo man who was killed on Thursday.
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  • A 23-year-old Vallejo man was shot to death late Thursday afternoon, outside a Porter Street apartment complex.
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  • Sonoma County Coho salmon
  • Coho salmon in Sonoma County are slowly making a comeback thanks to some human help.
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  • A two-alarm brush fire burned approximately two acres and damaged homes near a Benicia freeway this afternoon.
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  • ABC7 News got an inside look into a Fairfield pipe bomb suspect's home.
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  • Police believe the arrest of Fairfield resident Daniel Garcia may help solve a Vacaville pipe bomb case.
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  • Investigators believe a pipe bomb explosion in Fairfield might be connected to a newspaper pipe bomb case in Vacaville.
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  • Solano County authorities are hoping surveillance video will help them solve a 2-week-old murder mystery.
  • Authorities are hoping surveillance video will help them solve a 2-week-old murder mystery.
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  • Solano County authorities are hoping surveillance video will help them solve a 2-week-old murder mystery.
  • Authorities are hoping surveillance video will help them solve a 2-week-old murder mystery.
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  • priced to sell sign
  • An extraordinary number of local homeowners are finding themselves in upside down mortgages.
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  • priced to sell sign
  • An extraordinary number of local homeowners are finding themselves in upside down mortgages.
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  • Two Fairfield children are back home with their fatherafter going missing for a day and a half.
  • Two Fairfield children are back home with their father after going missing for a day and a half.
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  • Two Fairfield children are back home with their fatherafter going missing for a day and a half.
  • Two Fairfield children are back home with their fatherafter going missing for a day and a half.
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  • The Solano County Sheriffs Office is investigating the kidnapping of two children by their mother.
  • The Solano County Sheriff's Office is investigating the kidnapping of two children by their mother.
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  • For the second year in a row, Marin County is being called the healthiest in the state.
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  • Nathan Simpson
  • State prison authorities have released a photo of an inmate who is believed to have escaped a detention facility in Solano County
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  • The car needed to be lifted from the freeway side of I-80 near the Waterman Boulevard exit Monday morning.
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  • A big-rig jackknifed on eastbound Highway 37 in Solano County, spilling wood across the highway.
  • Eastbound state Highway 37 has reopened after a big-rig jackknifed and spilled wood on the highway.
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